By Samson Ezea
Trending recently on social and traditional media platforms was the news of Governor Peter Mbah’s visit to the speedily completed Nsukka modern transport terminal at Ogige Nsukka and the accompanied accolades, commendations and applauses from traders and people. Without a doubt, the completion of the project has changed the face of the sleepy town and once a disorganized and chaotic Ogige market.
Indeed, there is no doubt that apart from the economic value the new transport terminal will bring to Nsukka and Enugu State in general, the easthetic importance is huge and massive.
It would be recalled that when Governor Mbah's administration embarked on the construction of these modern transport terminals in Holyghost market, Gariki market, Nsukka market and Abakpa, and it was greeted and trailed with undue criticisms, doubts, cynicism and resistance, especially in Nsukka. However, I made it very clear in my several articles that in every developmental project of such magnitude by government, sacrifices must be made and prices must be paid by the people to actualize such project in the overall interest of the majority of the people at a long run. It was for this reason that I appreciated the difficulties faced by people who were displaced to make way for these transforming projects.
It is quite interesting, gladdening, and also surprising that among the modern transport terminals being constructed by Governor Mbah's administration, that of Nsukka is almost completed and ready.
This is a good development and huge facelift to Nsukka town. With this, coupled with the completion of the ongoing dualisation of Opi-Nsukka-Ugwuogo Nike road and provision of modern buses for transportation, the gap between Nsukka and Enugu metropolis will be hugely closed and development will be rapid.
With this, Governor Governor Mbah has once again proven the armchair critics and social media traducers wrong. He has shown that he meant business and that with the completion of the terminals, businesses will boom, and there will be ease of transportation across the state.
